Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration had got into and out of its first jam. The lesson: Washington had a lot to teach Detroit about how to handle appearances, just as Detroit assuredly had a lot to teach Washington about the realities under the appearances...
...jurors, six men and six women, went about their work conscientiously. Only after seven days of reading and discussion did they reach their verdict, delivered last week in the federal court in Manhattan. The verdict: the 13 defendants were guilty as charged of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government...
Last week, after opening a class for mothers at the local women's club, Carlos Rivera was planning to teach his techniques this spring in nearby towns, and next summer at New Mexico Western College. With 1,672 of El Paso's first-and second-graders already learning two languages, Rivera was glancing fondly at next year's kindergarten pupils, who will learn their "Pasen ustedes" along with their "Excuse me, pleases...
...digits against sound patterns in her memory. Then she flashes numbered lights to show what she has heard. Audrey can be tuned to one man's vocal manners and will read his speech correctly 98% of the time. When Bell scientists equip her with a larger vocabulary and teach her to recognize anyone's speech, they hope to put her to work as a telephone operator...
...Shakespeare's is the company Dickens rarely keeps. Shakespeare's characters grow; Dickens' characters only have Scroogian turnabouts. Where a Hamlet, a Captain Ahab or an Ivan Karamazov helps the reader to know himself, most of Dickens' fabulous folk reveal only their inimitable selves. They teach little, but, with the help of Dickens' beguiling gusto, they still make good reading and pretty good movies...